From the midweek edition of the Morning Jolt:

The State of Our Union Is . . . Glad That Speech Is Over.
Man, that speech stunk. An hour and ten minutes of “Here’s what I would do if I had a Democratic House and Senate.”
Last night, Obama declared, “I have run my last campaign,” and apparently some Republicans in the audience started applauding. In a alleged ad-lib that doesn’t seem ad-libbed at all, Obama responded, “I know, because I won them both.”
This came right after the call to work together in bipartisan brotherhood. Of course, looking at the overall state of the Democratic party, Obama’s two wins in the presidential elections are about the only good wins they’ve had since 2009.
In Non-‘Oh, What a Speech!’ News, Keep an Eye on Yemen
Meanwhile . . .
Rebels in Yemen seized the country’s largest missile base on a hilltop above the capital Sanaa on Wednesday, and posted guards outside the president’s home.
It came after the Shiite rebels, known as Houthis shelled U.S.-backed President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s neighborhood Tuesday and swept into the presidential palace and looted its weapons depots. The president remained inside his house.
The military base, which houses ballistic missiles, overlooks the city, which the rebels captured in September. The rebels issued fresh demands Wednesday, asking for the post of vice president and several key government offices. . . .
The destabilization threatens U.S. efforts to work with Hadi in targeting the radical Sunni al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula group that controls a portion of the country.
You see this trio of headlines . . .
. . . and wonder just how closely our government is “monitoring” this, as they insist.
Some Republicans have noticed.
“The situation is obviously deteriorating,” said Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, of the situation in Yemen. McCain added that the security situation in Yemen reflects what he sees as a “total failure” of the Obama administration’s Middle East policy.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, labeled the situation in Yemen “extremely dangerous” and said the collapse of the Hadi government “would be a setback for out counter-terrorism efforts.”
Obama, back in September:
This strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us, while supporting partners on the front lines, is one that we have successfully pursued in Yemen and Somalia for years.